Month: April 2025

From Kingsbury to Stoneboro – Rambling in Lancaster County

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History and Genealogy, Rambling

One of the ghost towns I’ve wanted to explore is Kingsbury, in Lancaster County, South Carolina.  Located on the Catawba River, Kingsbury started out as a ferry town.  It appears on the 1825 Lancaster District Map in Robert Mills’s Atlas of South Carolina. In the late 1700s Andrew McIlwaine chartered a ferry across the Catawba … Read More “From Kingsbury to Stoneboro – Rambling in Lancaster County” »

How’s the House?

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Miscellaneous

How’s the house? A casual question,Asked by upon encounter,Much like, “How’s the weather?”,A placeholder for deeper conversation. How’s the house? It’s tarp-covered, leakyWith cracked crumbling plaster,The ceiling open to rafters and wildlife.It sits as it did six months ago. How’s the house? It’s chaotic, A jumble not knowing where anything is,A reminder of too many … Read More “How’s the House?” »